Offer an interpretation (close reading) of “Conundrum” focusing on LANGUAGE and FORM. Consider how rhetorical and poetic choices invent particular versions of self and world; of sex, gender, and identity; of human life. Consider Conundrum as imaginative form, as genre which has conventions and literary histories, and for which we have certain expectations as readers.
How does the story narrate transsexual and/or transgender experience? How are these human identities conceptualized or understood? What imaginative, literary, rhetorical strategies do you find in the text? What do these strategies accomplish? What world and self do they invent for us to experience, even if or when we resist as readers?
Pay attention to local instances of LANGUAGE USE (diction, figures of speech, personification, etc); Syntactical strategies (the variety and forms of sentences, and the uses of grammar); consider the larger narrative form; the choices of events.
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